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Faizon Andre Love (born June 14, 1968) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for roles in the films Friday, Elf, Made, and Couples Retreat. Love was born Langston Faizon Santisima in Santiago de Cuba and raised in San Diego and Newark, New Jersey, because of his father's Navy career. Love got his start as a stand-up comedian and made his acting debut in an Off-Broadway at the age of nineteen. His motion picture debut Bebe's Kids had him providing the voice of late comedian Robin Harris. Harris died before production began and Love replaced him with an accurate impression. At... MORE

Faizon Andre Love (born June 14, 1968) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for roles in the films Friday, Elf, Made, and Couples Retreat. Love was born Langston Faizon Santisima in Santiago de Cuba and raised in San Diego and Newark, New Jersey, because of his father's Navy career. Love got his start as a stand-up comedian and made his acting debut in an Off-Broadway at the age of nineteen. His motion picture debut Bebe's Kids had him providing the voice of late comedian Robin Harris. Harris died before production began and Love replaced him with an accurate impression. At the time, Love was only 23 years old. He then had a role in The Meteor Man starring Robert Townsend. Townsend then cast Love in a co-starring role on his sitcom The Parent 'Hood. He followed up this role with a breakout performance as the drug dealer Big Worm in the 1995 film Friday. Follow-up films have included Elf, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, Money Talks, Wonderland, The Fighting Temptations, and Idlewild. Love also guests on Ludacris' Freaky Thangs from the album Word of Mouf. In 2001, he cameos as a bus driver, in the music video for Lil Jon & The LESS